Ted Nordhaus

Ted Nordhaus - "an author, researcher, and political strategist" - is Chairman of the Breakthrough Institute. He co-authored a book with Michael Shellenberger titled The Death of Environmentalism and the Birth of a New American Politics, and a 2004 essay by the same name.

He is also a managing partner of the for-profit research and consulting firm American Environics.

Background
"Ted holds a BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley.“

"Over the last twenty years, Ted has run major campaigns and initiatives for a large assortment of environmental and progressive political causes including the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, and Clean Water Action. Nordhaus also served as the Campaign Director for Share the Water, a coalition of environmentalists, fishermen, farmers, and urban water agencies advocating reform of federal water policies in California, Executive Director of the Headwaters Sanctuary Project, and as a partner and political strategist with Next Generation, a political consulting firm serving environmental organizations and campaigns."

More recently, He was a pollster and Vice President at Evans McDonough Company, an opinion research firm based in Oakland.

Personal
Ted Nordhaus is the son of attorney Robert R. Nordhaus, and the nephew of Yale economist William D. Nordhaus.

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External resources

 * [The Breakthrough Institute]